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Some things are more offensive than words

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How reassuring to know that The Dispatch will review standards on using words that offend (Editor Benjamin J. Marrison’s column Inside Story, Sunday). However, many readers might find the following list truly offensive, and reflective of American being turned into a nation of serfs:

• The Internal Revenue Services runs roughshod and unchecked in targeting groups that do not hold the same philosophies as the current administration.

• The First and Fourth amendments are trampled by President Barack Obama and his minions, while the Second Amendment is continually under attack.

• The attorney general repeatedly lies to Congress and the American people, and is supported by a president who calls him exemplary.

• The holding of biblical teachings in opposition to same sex-marriage initiatives is viewed as a Neanderthal position.

• Political correctness and relativism only apply if one is in agreement with the left-of-center philosophies.

• A single activist atheist has the ability to strike fear in any school district and force compliance with his demands.

• The government continues unchecked in monitoring all communications of the American people, akin to Joseph Stalin with the technology to accomplish an agenda beyond George Orwell's 1984.

Perhaps those are really the big offenses that should be at the top of the list.